April 1 Ride to Show Low; BBQ at Motorcyclist Cafe and Barn of Mr. Dean Lear; K1600's

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April 1 Ride to Show Low; BBQ at Motorcyclist Cafe and Barn of Mr. Dean Lear; K1600's

AZ Beemers is riding from "Valley of the Blast Furnace" to the Cool Northern Pines.

There'll be all makes and models of Beemers, but there'll also be the 7 new BMW K1600's owned by AZ Beemer Members. Many more K16's are on backorder status.

Originally Posted by Deans BMW

Don, stupid me..................

Your original date of April 1 would be perfect, I got my dates mixed up.

I could ride to somewhere and if you wanted lead everyone to the MC B&B or the Barn. We could cook Burgers on the grill or whatever.

I would love to show everyone around.

"Brother Dean, With your kind permission I am going to go ahead and move this to the "Upcoming Rides" section of the AZ Beemers Club #89 Website.

Dean has graciously offered to pick up all of the lunch supplies, so we do not have to pack them on our bikes. I am asking each AZ Beemer Member riding up to Dean's on Sunday, April 1 to have a $5 - five dollar bill on them to compensate Dean. You cannot beat this deal with a stick: Cheeseburger, chips and a soda for a fiver - $5 is a heck of a deal.

If you'll please select a spot from which you could lead us to the BB/Barn.

We'll mobilize from the East Valley so we arrive at your meet spot at 1100.

We will ride up through Salt River Canyon on AZ/US 60 and return on Arizona 260 through Heber and Payson. AZB is looking forward to the ride!"

AZ Beemers: MapQuest shows 3 hours and 150 miles from the Goldfield Chevron to Show Low, so our departure time is 0800 hours. Departure point: 3265 South Goldfield Road, Apache Junction, AZ 85219. Southeast corner of US 60 and Exit is #198. My phone: 480-440-4666.

Mr. Dean Lear is one of the "Founding Fathers" of the BMW Riders Association and was the Founder and Owner of San Jose BMW. Dean installed dual plugs on my BMW R90S back in the late seventies.

Dean has graciously offered to pick up all of the lunch supplies, so we do not have to pack them on our bikes. I am asking each AZ Beemer Member riding up to Dean's on Sunday, April 1 to have a $5 - five dollar bill on them to compensate Dean. You cannot beat this deal with a stick: Cheeseburger, chips and a soda for a fiver - $5 is a heck of a deal.

Dean will give us a meeting place in Show Low later. beemerdons@aol.com Call me at 480-440-4666

The ride up to Show Low was excellent. I had been lagging back before entering the Salt River Canyon and had no traffic on the way down.

At the bottom, Rob filled us in on some of the details of the canyon, from his years of guiding raft trips through it. I'll need to hit some of those back roads in the area sometime.

When the main group was leaving, there was a large parade of 2 cattle trucks, 2 fuel trucks and numerous trailers. So, once again, I laid back about 5 minutes and had a zero traffic, full speed run up out of the canyon.

Took a while to cut through the parade and then we re-grouped in Show Low.

Here's my bike on the way up. I stopped to snap some pix of the group, but had the camera settings wrong at first. Sorry.

Here we are in Show Low for the meet up.

Don (L) and Dean (back) getting the details to the way to the Motorcyclist Cafe.

Jim on his LT.

Jane checking something on her bike.

Rob, on the 2nd fastest K16. (Next to mine) We all know that blue is the fastest color because it has the shortest wavelength. Google it !!

Tony on his White GT. This bike will be renamed "Spritzer" later in the day.

Eileen on her FJR. I saw a FJR coming up behind me, assumed it was Greg and showed a finger gesture. It wasn't Greg. Sorry Eileen !